Essays

NextGen infrastructure: places of (resource) aggregation and (public) congregation By the end of this century, the infrastructural landscape may look radically different from that of today. The interlinked effects of global urbanization, climate change, and...

On the occasion of the 16. Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Area interviews Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto, founders of Alvisi Kirimoto, the design team formed in Rome in 2002. Alvisi and Kirimoto's main ideas are based on the requalification of landscape and on the relentless collaboration with clients,...

Flores i Prats, the architectural practice based in Barcelona founded in 1998 by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, after many collaborations with Enric Miralles, is among the ten architects selected for the Vatican Chapel Pavilion, which represents the Vatican State's first participation in...

If we were to answer a foreign friend about the recognisable symbols of Italian architecture of the last few years, I think we would have a few problems finding a plausible answer. There is the Bosco Verticale (Vertical...

Issue number 100 of Area inevitably forces us to look inwards and backwards, to reflect on the history of the magazine, how it all began, or rather how the cultural aims of Area came...

Some themes, subjects, and areas are much influenced by the era, inevitably feeling the effects of broader issues of the day. Reflecting the expectations of the social and cultural environment around them, today‘s architects...

Pilgrims take part in the function of the Night of Power (Laylat al- Qadr), the 27th day of the Ramadan. The celebration commemorates the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet. Mecca, Saudi Arabia...

Archea Associati, Square and public facilities in Merate, Lecco - photo by Pietro Savorelli There is a passage, in Calvino‘s Cosmicomiche, which, describing our planet from an unusual point of view, that is, from the...

You could build a history of living, changes in lifestyles and forms of family relationships through an account of the evolution of places in the home that are indispensable for carrying out everyday activities;...

Recreation, fun and vacation require the research of a special habitat where one’s existence can reach that level of relaxation, capable of rejuvenating body and spirit.

Architecture and food define a repetitive link: we are dealing with “arts”, which completely overlap.

Marco Casamonti illustrates thereasons for a issue of Area that deals with the subject of the construction site and under construction projects.